Australia: Topography

Sahul in the last Glacial Maximim, ca 23,000 BCE

Australia: Aboriginal man.
Central Australia: Aranda Elders
 Aboriginal People
Today

Central Desert
Alyawara: J. McConnel
Central Australia: Uluru : Vegetation Mosaic
Koala
An Emu
A Witchiti Grub
A Dingo
Central Australia
Ayer’s Rock/ Uluru from West
Ayer’s Rock/ Uluru from Southwest
Uluru: Rock shelter from Air
Uluru: Rock shelter with Rock paintings
Uluru:
Pitjinjara
Elder
Summit of Ayer’s rock/ Uluru
Waterholes on Uluro/ Ayer’s rock
Desert Roards:

From Uluru
to Kata Tjuja
a Tjuta: Before dawn
Kata Tjuta Dawn
Kata Tjuta: High domes and Petroglyph Valley
 Tjuta:
oglyph Valley
Kata Tjuta: Wild Nicotania in Petroglyph Valley
 Kata Tjuta:
New spiral petroglyp
Kata Tjuta:
Old Spiral Petrog
a Tjuta: Valley of the Winds from above
Kata Tjuta: Valley of Winds Small Tools
Kata Tjuta: Valley of Winds Larger Tools
: Nawamoyn III Tools :
 Puntutjata Rockshelter

Dick Gould and

Informants
 Devil’s Lair Cave

Excavation

Team

SW Australia
Selected pollen and charcoal data for Lake Euramoo and Quincan Crater. A) and F) Euramoo and Quincan 14C samples, respectively. B) Euramoo
pollen diagrams and (C) Euramoo palynological richness (E(T125) = standardized pollen sum) plotted using Psimpoll (© Kieth Bennett). D) Euramoo
microcharcoal (<125 μm) reflecting burning of low plant biomass during the glacial period. E) Euramoo and (G) Quincan pollen zones representing
past vegetation (Kershaw, 1971 (number of 14C dates/250-a windows) from Cosgrove et al., 2007
Australia. Uluru Sunset